Alterations to existing business park estate road, creation of parkland and associated landscaping, external lighting and formation of accesses to...

Why was this approved?

• Compliance with Business Park designation
• Ecological enhancements and protected species mitigation
• Highway safety and capacity confirmed acceptable
• Visual and landscape improvements
• Ancillary open space serving existing uses

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Decision & Reasoning

Policies Assessed (4)

Conditions (5)

1. 1

   Time limit

   The development hereby approved shall be begun before the expiration of four years from the date of this decision notice.

2. 2

   Landscaping implementation

   All planting, seeding or turfing comprised in the approved details of landscaping must be carried out in the first planting and seeding seasons following the completion of the development or the occupation of the dwellings, whichever is the sooner. Any trees or plants which within a period of five years from the completion of the development die, are removed, or become seriously damaged or diseased must be replaced in the next planting season with others of a similar size and species. The landscaping scheme may not include cotoneaster which is a Schedule 8 species in the Wildlife Act 1990.

3. 3

   Common lizard precautionary statement

   Prior to the commencement of any works outwith the highways as hereby approved, there must be approved by the Planning Committee a Precautionary Working Method Statement in respect of common lizard by a suitably qualified ecological consultancy and this has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Department and that the development shall be undertaken in accordance with the approved mitigation measures and maintained as such thereafter.

4. 4

   Bat survey and mitigation

   Prior to the commencement of any works hereby approved other than within the highway, there must be submitted to and approved in writing by the Department a bat survey including any proposed mitigation and the development must be undertaken in accordance with these details.

5. 5

   Lighting strategy

   Prior to the commencement of any works hereby approved there must be approved in writing by the Department a lighting strategy which demonstrates how the site and its highway will be lit without adversely affecting the ecology of the site and the development must be undertaken in accordance with these approved details.

Public Comments (6)

Consultation Responses

Highway Services and DEFA Biodiversity raised no objections subject to specific conditions on highway works, habitat management, bat surveys, lizard mitigation, and lighting; Malew Parish Commissioners had no objections; private representations raised concerns about maintenance, land access, and utilities.